PixlBit

I use FB to keep up with family and friends. I try to stay out of FB drama.

Twitter? I've always had two observations about Twitter:

1. You can't spell "Twitter" without "twit", and

2. "Twitter" rhymes with "shitter."

The Internet would be a lot better of a place if Twitter went under. It seemed to be headed towards bankruptcy a few years ago, and I was prepared to dance on its ashes. But now that it's the platform of choice for a certain individual in the District of Columbia who likes to shoot his mouth off, that is sadly not going to happen.

Stage Select:

1. Tutorial levels, especially unskippable ones. I know how to walk and how to press A to jump. I should not have to demonstrate it to the satisfaction of the game to proceed. This isn't school. If you must have tutorial levels, make them a selectable option on the main menu. Keep them out of the game itself.

2. Stealth missions, especially in games that aren't really made to handle stealth, and most especially when discovery results in an instant Game Over or mission failure.

3. Bad voice acting, whether it's the hyperactive voice-acting you see in a lot of Japanese games, or the flat, doped-out-on-Haldol delivery you hear in Western games. And as a related topic, repetitive voice clips.

Welcome back! And even Angelo showed up? Cool.

I think Fallout Games, which is local to Phoenix, might have plastic covers big enough to hold game boxes. Not too sure.

I haven't gotten it yet. I got Shining Resonance Refrain for Switch instead, because I've wanted it for a long time since the Japan-only PS3 version came out, it came with a steel case, and it was only $49. With a couple of trade-ins I only paid $16.

And yeah, it is humid here. My GF and I both sweat constantly in this humidity. I haven't seen anything like this since I lived in Oklahoma.

My family had a TRS-80 when I was a kid. I have a TRS-80 emulator on my computer now. It had some pretty great games, including good knockoffs of Scramble (Penetrator) and Galaxian (Galaxy Invasion), and a few unique gems like Bee Wary.

I went to an antiques store in Camp Verde, AZ that's been there since I was a kid. It used to be a carpet warehouse. That's the town my grandparents lived in before they passed away. I found a hand-pump that I think belonged to them at one time, so I bought it. I also saw some faucets that you screw a liquor bottle into and use it to pour the liquor.

I wish they had Alisia Dragoon on this collection. That was a fun platforming adventure from early Genesis days.

I got my Switch at Christmas, so I don't know to what degree that impacts the chances of mine getting defects like the cracks and scratches and dead pixels that I've been reading about. I've been lucky, I guess.

I remember the original Game Boy getting dead lines in the screen when I got it. It would develop random verticla dead lines along the right edge that would flicker on and off, and I also got a permanent horizontal dead line in it after I accidentally dropped it a coupld feet. :(

I'd have to give it to Celeste, too. That was a pretty tight game, loved the music. It actually caught my eye because my GF has that name. Funny thing is, I'm not the only one saying that. Weird.

This is the first time I've read about Switches developing spontaneous cracks, but when I read this, I looked at my Switch. Thankfully, no cracks. I also googled it to see how widespread the issue was.

One theory I've seen a lot is that one of the screws might have been over-tightened at the factory putting stress on the plastic casing. If the cracking is a factory defect, I'd say you definitely have a right to be pissed that a $300 piece of electronics is developing cracks like that.